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Retail Wholesale And Retail Trade And Repair Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Trade Of Motor Vehicle Parts And Accessories 45.32 - Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 February 2021
Employment effect (start)
11 February 2021
Foreseen end date
Description
German online retailer of automotive parts AUTODOC has announced that it will create 800 new jobs at its new logistics centre in Szczecin. The company has invested €11 million in the semi-automatically operated warehouse to double its storage space in the city to 26,700 square metres. It is expected that AUTODOC's handling will increase form 25,000 daily orders to as many as 61,000. Employees receive a number of bonus systems, private health insurance and care as well as free transport.
AUTODOC is active in 27 European countries. The company has two logistics centre located in Berlin (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland) employing about 4,000 staff. In Szczecin, the company has been operating since 2018; currently, about 1,600 people are employed at the Szczecin site.
Eurofound (2021), AUTODOC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 103527, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103527.
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